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| Description: | Jack Mulhall and Louise Lovely meet on a beach surrounded by young women wearing bathing costumes composed mostly of seaweed in "Sirens of the Sea" (Univer... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Theda Bara, stands and rests an arm against a pillar with one hand on the back of a chair, in a production still from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopat... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Art Acord as the Egyptian Kephren from the 1917 Fox production of Cleopatra. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valeska Suratt wears a spider dress and on her head is a webbed hat, proof positive that she is a vamp. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valeska Suratt, in a tall dark hat, stares intensely at the camera while holding a vase against her cheek. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Billie Burke wearing fashionable sportswear (a matching set of bloomers, leggings, and cap) points a Kodak roll film camera at the photographer. She stands... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Silent film actress Vola Vale wearing a polka dot dress and dark straw hat in a portrait by the Hartsook Studio. She inscribed it to the editor and publish... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Vola Vale, silent film actress who was a leading ingenue for the Balboa Amusement Producing Company. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a flowing white robe, probably in the role of Ashubetis on the Jacksonville, Florida, set of the 1917 Thanhouser production The Im... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach.... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Irene Castle holding one of her small Belgian Griffon dogs. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mabel Trunnelle, player in Edison Company silent films from 1909, is dressed in a white sailor's suit and straw hat and holds a young goat. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Bob Hildreth (a sculptor played by Frank Mayo) has designs on his student Lois Page (played by Ethel Clayton) in this scene still from "Easy Money." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917). |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford (playing the title role) goofing off with a parasol. |
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